Vietucnews – A man in Western Australia was lucky enough to dig up a 1.4 kg gold nugget while using a detector at a gold mine.
This unnamed man, after finding the gold, showed it off to the owner of a store specializing in selling items to gold hunters Matt Cook in the city of Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, according to BBC.
“He walked into the store and showed me the gold, his face beaming,” Mr. Cook said. The nugget is bigger than a cigarette pack, weighs about 1.4 kg and is estimated to be worth 100,000 AUD.
Mr. Cook said the other man discovered the gold nugget in a gold mining area near the city of Kalgoorlie. After hearing the signal from the detector, he dug down about 45 cm and found this valuable gold ore.
According to experts, finding a gold nugget of similar size only happens a few times a year and gold miners often have to use heavy machinery. Rarely does anyone use a detector to detect gold.
Professor Sam Spearing, director of the Western Australian School of Mines at Curtin University, said that in addition to the main mining activities, many spontaneous gold hunters often go to the areas around the gold mines in Kalgoorlie on weekends to look for gold because about ¾ of the gold in Australia is mined in this region.
“Most of the gold found weighs less than an ounce but they find it quite often,” Professor Spearing said. The discovery of large gold nuggets using rudimentary tools is very rare.
